sPHENIX measurement of Open-Charm Baryon-to-Meson Ratios in $p$+$p$ collisions at RHIC

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contents sPHENIX is a state-of-the-art experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), dedicated to the study of heavy-flavor and jet physics. Its precision tracking system, combined with streaming readout, enables heavy-flavor measurements with high-statistics and essentially unbiased data samples. During the 2024 run, sPHENIX was fully commissioned and recorded a sample of 100 billion unbiased $p$+$p$ collisions, together with a minimum-bias Au+Au dataset. The 2025 run further expanded the sPHENIX dataset with high-statistics $p$+$p$, O+O and Au+Au collisions. This extensive $p$+$p$ sample opens the door to heavy-flavor measurements with orders of magnitude more statistics than previously available at RHIC. Notably, there has been no prior measurement of the $Λ_c^+ / D^0$ baseline in $p$+$p$ collisions at RHIC energies. The large sPHENIX dataset now enables the first exploration of key open questions, such as the hadronization mechanism of baryons and the strange-to-light flavor meson ratio.
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spellingShingle sPHENIX measurement of Open-Charm Baryon-to-Meson Ratios in $p$+$p$ collisions at RHIC
Yu, Xudong
Nuclear Experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Theory
sPHENIX is a state-of-the-art experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), dedicated to the study of heavy-flavor and jet physics. Its precision tracking system, combined with streaming readout, enables heavy-flavor measurements with high-statistics and essentially unbiased data samples. During the 2024 run, sPHENIX was fully commissioned and recorded a sample of 100 billion unbiased $p$+$p$ collisions, together with a minimum-bias Au+Au dataset. The 2025 run further expanded the sPHENIX dataset with high-statistics $p$+$p$, O+O and Au+Au collisions. This extensive $p$+$p$ sample opens the door to heavy-flavor measurements with orders of magnitude more statistics than previously available at RHIC. Notably, there has been no prior measurement of the $Λ_c^+ / D^0$ baseline in $p$+$p$ collisions at RHIC energies. The large sPHENIX dataset now enables the first exploration of key open questions, such as the hadronization mechanism of baryons and the strange-to-light flavor meson ratio.
title sPHENIX measurement of Open-Charm Baryon-to-Meson Ratios in $p$+$p$ collisions at RHIC
topic Nuclear Experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15667